UNICEF and the Global Goals

UNICEF is committed to doing all it can to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in partnership with governments, civil society, business, academia and the United Nations family – and especially children and young people.

A League Table of Child Poverty in Rich Nations

The League Tables of Child Poverty presented in the first Innocenti Report Card are the most comprehensive estimates so far of child poverty across the industrialized world. Based on a new analysis, commissioned by UNICEF, of the latest data from the Luxembourg Income Study of household surveys, our figure shows that child poverty rates vary form under 3 per cent to more than 25 per cent in the world’s economically advanced nations.